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J. J. BARNARD, Decd J. ADAMS, Administrator, RECORD SHEET.

No. 423,657. Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

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JAMES J. BARNARD, OF PASSAIO, NEW JERSEY; JOHN ADAMS ADMINIS- TRATOR OF SAID JAMES J. BARNARD, DECEASED.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 423,657, dated March 18, 1890. Application filed March 22, 1889. Serial No. 304,275. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES J BARNARD,of Passaic, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Record-Sheet, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the recording and journalizing of sales of merchandise; and its object is, by employing therein a record-sheet supplementary to the usual books of record,

" and on which the sales are entered in brief,

to economize the time and labor usually required in recording and journalizing, and insure the completion of the entire course of the same at the close of each business day.

Be Eerence is to be had to the accompanying 'drawing, forming a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference thereon, the figure shown being a plan view of my improved record-sheet.

, In carrying my invention into effect I employ a sheet A of paper of convenient size, preferably ruled upon one side onlyby-a horizontal line a near itstop to provide a space 6 for the headings, hereinafter referred to, and by horizontal lines 0 and vertical lines 01 to form spaces and columns of proper heightand width, respectively, below the headings to receive the data of the sales and other suchpartieular memoranda as may be desired. In the space I) over said columns and spaces are printed, preferably in the order specified, the following headings: No, Name, Address, Conveyance, Book, Page, Amount, Ledger, Folio, and Remarks, or abbreviations of the same. The particulars of the orders having been taken by the order-clerk, the orders filled, transcripts thereof passed to the entry-clerk and entered at large by him on the invoice-heads, all in theusual manner, said entry-clerk then places on the sheet A in the columns 6, f, g, and .h, respectively, the numbers of the orders, the names of the purchasers, the residences of the purchasers, and the modes of conveyance of the goods, until said columns are filled. Said sheet A and the invoiceheads are then passed to the invoice-clerk, who extends and foots such invoices, takes a press copy of the same for his record, and then places upon the sheet A in the columns 1' lo Z, respectively, the letter or figure designating the invoice-book, and the figure or figures designating the pages in and upon which, respectively, the invoices are recorded and the amounts of the same until said columns are filled. Said sheet A is then passed to the bookkeeper, who transfers the several amounts of the sales to his ledger in the usual manner, and thereupon places on said sheet in the columns m n 0, respectively, the letter or figure designating the ledger and the figure or figures designating the pages, in and upon which, respectively, said amounts are charged, and any other memoranda required, whereupon said sheet may be filed away for future reference, if required.

By the employment of said record-sheet the use of-a sales-journal is dispensed with, and the invoice-clerk is saved the time and labor usually required in transcribing the invoices in duplicate from the sales-journal to the invoice-heads, and the book-keeper is saved time and labor in journalizing.

A still greater advantage accruing from the use of said record-sheet is that the entire course of sales from the taking of the orders to the journalizing of their amounts may be completed at the close of each-business day, thus insuring the dispatch of the goods and the invoices on the same day, and, in the instance of small orders, simultaneously.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The record-sheet A, horizontally ruled by the line a, providing at its top the space .1) containing the permanent headings N 0., Name, Address, Conveyance, Book, Page, Amount, Ledger,- Folio, and Remarks, and horizontally ruled by the lines 0 and d into smaller spaces beneath the headings in the space 12, substantially as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

JAMES J BARNARD.

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WM. H. SPEER, CORNELIUS W. KIEVIT. 

